Ideas: AI for materials discovery with Tian Xie and Ziheng Lu
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I’m your guest host, Lindsay Kalter. Today I’m talking to Microsoft Principal Research Manager Tian Xie and Microsoft Principal Researcher Ziheng Lu. Tian is doing fascinating work with MatterGen, an AI tool for generating new materials guided by specific design requirements. Ziheng is one of the visionaries behind MatterSim, which puts those new materials to the test through advanced simulations. Together, they’re redefining what’s possible in materials science. Tian and Ziheng, welcome to the podcast.
TIAN XIE: Very excited to be here.
ZIHENG LU: Thanks, Lindsay, very excited.
KALTER: Before we dig into the specifics of MatterGen and MatterSim, let’s give our audience a sense of how you, as researchers, arrived at this moment. Materials science, especially at the intersection of computer science,